The life of St Edmund, King and martyr : John Lydgate's illustrated verse life presented to Henry VI : a facsimile of British
Library MS Harley 2278 by John Lydgate(
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editions published
in
2004
in
English
and held by
154 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"On Christmas Eve 1433, the young King Henry VI arrived at the abbey Bury St. Edmunds, one of the largest religious foundations
in fifteenth-century England. He remained there until Easter and at the end of his stay was admitted to the abbey's confraternity.
To cement the abbey's relationship with the king, Abbot William Curteys conceived the idea of commemorating Henry's visit
with a 'life' of the Anglo-Saxon king, St. Edmund, the patron saint of the abbey." "The man charged with the task of translating
the 'life' of St. Edmund was John Lydgate, a monk at the abbey and the preeminent poet of the fifteenth century. It is hard
to overstate the importance of the resulting manuscript, both as a monument to the development of the English language, and
for its illustrations - 120 images, forming narrative sequences integrated to form a coherent visual parallel to the text
and with a careful fidelity to detail. The completed manuscript that was presented to the young king remained in his library
until after his deposition, and although it left royal hands for a time, it reappears in the inventories of the library of
Henry VIII. It is now in The British Library."--Jacket

Letters and papers illustrative of the wars of the English in France during the reign of Henry the Sixth, King of England by Joseph Stevenson(
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editions published
between
1965
and
1968
in
English
and held by
8 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This two-volume compilation contains the texts of documents in Latin, Middle French and Middle English (with translations
and abstracts) concerning the later phases of the Hundred Years' War, focusing on the period 1423-50. Published between 1861
and 1864, it was edited by Joseph Stevenson (1807-95), a Northumbrian archivist and clergyman who had been instrumental in
persuading the British government to sponsor the Rolls Series project. Stevenson transcribed and translated material from
archival sources in France and England, including the Registers of the Grants issued by the English government in France from
1420 to 1433 and the Privy Seal collection. The introduction to Volume 1 outlines the political instability and shifting alliances
that underlay the hostilities, and the subjects of the texts range from court matters and diplomacy to finance and military
logistics. This primary source material reveals fascinating details about a pivotal period in European history

Calendarium inquisitionum post mortem sive escaetarum by Great Britain(
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)1
edition published
in
1828
in
Latin
and held by
1 WorldCat member
library
worldwide
Transcript of the official calendars of records preserved in the Tower of London, revised and corrected with the original
by Robert Lemon, chief clerk of the Tower

The reign of King Henry VI : the exercise of royal authority, 1422-1461 by Ralph A Griffiths(
Book
)1
edition published
in
1981
in
English
and held by
1 WorldCat member
library
worldwide
"Henry VI is the youngest monarch ever to have ascended the English throne and the only English king to have been acknowledges
by the French as rightfully King of France. His reign was the third longest since the Norman conquest and he came close to
being declared a saint. This masterly study, unparalleled in its informative detail, examines the entire span of the king's
reign, from the death of Henry V in 1422, when Henry was only nine months old, to the period of his insanity at the beginning
of the Wars of the Roses and his dethronement in 1461, preceding his murder ten years later. This classic re-assessment of
the third Lancastrian king is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of fifteenth-century England."--Publisher
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